Route Claude Code Through AWS Bedrock for CloudTrail Auditing and IAM Control

Originally published on Build With AWS. Subscribe for weekly AWS builds. Over the past few weeks, Claude Code has gained a lot of attention as a developer tool in the AI space. With rapid improvements in its capabilities, better context handling, and an increasingly robust feature set, developers are flocking to this powerful CLI tool that brings Claude’s intelligence directly into their terminal workflow. Whether you’re debugging complex codebases, refactoring legacy systems, or building new features, Claude Code has proven itself as an indispensable coding companion. But with great power comes great responsibility, and potentially significant API costs. Why Route Claude Code Through AWS Bedrock? If you’re already using Claude Code, you might be consuming the Anthropic API directly. While this works perfectly fine, there are compelling reasons to route your Claude Code traffic through AWS Bedrock instead: 1. Cost Control and Transparency AWS Bedrock provides granular billing through A